The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-07-09
The Petit Jury for the May term of the Cir

on Sunday, by the pastor, heV. j. IL. Elderdlce,
at 1880 a. m. Prayer meetings every Sunday and
Tuesday nights, at o'clock.
The Petit Jury for the May term of the Cir
cult Court was finally discharged on Tuesday.
1t is estimated that not less than twenty
five thousand people spent the 4th of July in
Druid Hill Park. ,.
james Bujac, of Gainesville, Baltimore
county, has obtained a patent for the manufacture
of fuel and illuminating gas.
--Messrs. j. W. Lee Son, of this place,
made the first deposit in the new National bank
building in this place on Tuesday
The premium list for the coming Baltimore
county agricultural fair has been issued. 1t will
be held September 6th 18th, Sth and 9Th.
Baltimore county was alive with city people
on Monday and all the railroads did a large bust
ness. Fortunately there were accidents.
Phillip Schaad, who lives near Chase's Sta
ton, 18th district, had his left leg broken few
DAYS ago, by a horse he was driving to market.
a new postofice has been established at
Morrison, Baltimore county, on the line OF the
new B. 4 O. railroad, with Mrs. Ellen Bell as
postmaster.
Justice Willis, of Waverly, has imposed a
fine of $25 on W. P. Snyder for selling jewelry
without license and keeping gaming table at
barley Park.
Mrs. Kelbaugh, of Union, LIST district who
fell recently and broke her thigh bone, died few
days ago from the effects of the injury. Her age
was about n years.
BY the annual distribution of the State
public school fund, made by the Comptroller on
the LIST instant, the schools Of Baltimore comfy
will receive S3,2S4.5S.
john D. Weakley, who some time ago re-
signed the postmastership at Sweet Air, Balti-
more county, has been appointed machinlst IN
the Navy Yard at Washington.
The Towson Guards will participate in the
eucampment of the State militia which commences
at Hagerstown on the I'd and continues to the oth
of August. The boys anticipate good time
At the Daniel camp meeting near Glyndon
prizes OF gold and silver medals are to be offered
for Evolutionary contests, in which the boys and
girls of the county are invited to participate,
At the meeting of the Maryland Teachers
Association, held at Old Point Comfort the past
week, Prof. B. c. Reed, of Towsontown, read a
very interesting paper on "Teachers Certificates"
The Belair National Bank has just declared
a semi annual dividend of per cent. The un-
divided profits of the bank amount to $4,000.
The surplus, or reserve fund, amounts to 81, 800.
The chestnut trees are very heavily laden
with blossoms and this, people of experience say,
is a sure sign of good corn year. Last year
there were very few chestnuts in Baltimore county.
Our farmers were fortunate in having fine
weather for their wheat harvest AID the grain was
saved in good condition. 1t is encouraging to
know that the crop will be better than was ex
pected.
George Grace, member of the truck COM
pany at Highlandtown, has resigned and has been
appointed lamplighter for that place, vice John
Werner, who takes Grace's place with the truck
company.
camp meeting at Jackson's Grove this year, owing
to tie fact that the BALTIC. Potomac railroad has
declined to grant them certain privileges hereto
fore enjoyed.
"A splendid rain, of several hours duration,
set in here at an early hour on Tuesday morning
and did great amount of good to vegetation,
which was beginning to languish on account of
the protracted drouth.
George L. Barrenger, Sd district butcher,
was convicted in the Circuit Court here on Tues
day of the charge of maintaining nuisance on
his premises. Sentence was deferred pending
motion for a new trial.
Mrs. Passano, wife of Mr.. Joseph Passano,
a well known Reisterstown merchant, was badly
stunned by lightning while standing in the door
of her residence, Tuesday afternoon. She remain
ed unconscious for some time.
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Moale, widow of the
late Randle II. Moale, died at her residence in
Baltimore, on the 4th inst, at an advanced age.
Her remains were inferred at St. Thomas's, Gar
rison Forrest, on Wednesday.
The force engaged in boring the srtesian
we'll for Towsontown reached q depth of eighty
feet before the augur struck rock. Since then the
work has not progressed so rapidly. The present
depth of the well is 100 feet.
The Woodbury. baseball club played a
game Monday afternoon at 0riole Park, with the
Pastime of Baltimore, and were defeated by a
score of IL to- 2. The Pastime is of the strong
est amateur mines in the country.
Two of the excursion coaches of the Mary
land Central road have been remodeled and re-
painted and present very neat and comfortable
appearance. What the road is very badly in need
of just now is a new engine or two.
Several camp-meetings will be commenced
in Baltimore county towards the latter part of the
present month, but as the Democratic primary
meetings will then be over they will have no
special attraction for the politicians.
The heavy storm of Tuesday evening did
considerable damage to the oats in some sections
of the county, by leveling it with the ground and
some places tangling it very badly. The corn
also suffered to considerable extent.
-Towson Lodge, No. 70, I. o. o. F. installed
the officers of the Lodge for the current six months
on Thursday night last. The Lodge contemplate
making an excursion to some resort on the Ches-
apeake Bay in the course of a few weeks.
The Maryland Construction and Land I'm
provement Company purchased few days ago
from Mr.. r. ]. Capron, twenty acres of land.
situated on the west side of Roland avenue, 9Th
district, for $4,000 per acre. The land is unim-
proved.
Mr.. ]. Harry Ward, of the 9th district, who
is member of a company who own extensive red
stone quarries in Montgomery county, Nd, has
contracted to furnish stone for the extensive steel
works about to be erected at Sparrows Point, 18th
district
Mr.. John Lynch, proprietor of the Five
Mile House, Hartford road, intended holding a
tournament on the goth inst, but owing to the
death of one of his children and the illness Of
other members of his family, it has been indef-
nitely postponed.
People residing on the Frederick road, four
five miles from the city, get their coal delivered
to them for $3.50 per ton. In Towsontown, i'm
msdiatey on the line of a railroad, coal costs
us from Sc to $3.50 q ton. We would like to know
why this is the case.
"A gentleman who owns several farms adj
joining Towsontown advertised one of them for
rent in The UNION. Among other applications
for the place he received all the way from the
State of Florida, the writer saying that he saw
the advertisement in THE UNION.
There are already large number of city
people at Glyndon for the summer, but all the
boarding houses are not yet filled. 1t is getting
to be favorite resort for many Baltimoreans, and
the accommodations on the Western Maryland
road are in themselves an attraction.
"A base ball nine from Baltimore-the" Sar-
atoga chips" they called themselves, we believe
came out here on the 4th to play game with the
Towsontown boys. They were speedily reduced
to sawdust and returned to the city with firm
conviction that change of name is necessary.
-Towsontown's 4th of July celebration was
daisy. The people appeared to be imbued with
the spirit of rs, and the way they did celebrate
was good to see. The year 1887 is destined to be
q memorable one in the history of the town, and
no wonder those Belair people are getting jealous
of US.
-Belar had its 4th of July celebration Mon
day evening. The previous Fourth they set of
their fireworks in the afternoon. Having learned
wisdom from experience they waited until after
dark this time, and the result was much more sat-
isfactory. 1t was big thing (for Belair) and in
the language Of the poet "they got there with both
feet"
Lewis McGreevy, who will be remembered
as the smart red headed boy who some years ago
drove the express wagon of Mr.. Jos. Gorsuch be-
tween this place and Baltimore, is now carrying
on an extensive bottling establishment in the city
and is doing large and paying business. Lewis
is energetic and industrious and deserves to sue
coed.
-Towsontowns new bank building is now
completed and was occupied for the first time or
Tuesday. As we have said before, it is the
most complete and prettiest building of the kind
in the State, outside of the city of Baltimore. Il
is credit to the town and an enduring monument
to the gentlemen through whose fundamentally
it was erected.